Russian Mafia vs MS-13

Russian Mafia

MS-13

The Russian Mafia (Russian: русская мафия; russkaya mafiya) or Bratva, is a term used to refer to the collective of various organized crime elements originating in the former Soviet Union. Although not a singular criminal organization, most of the individual groups share similar goals and organizational structures that define them as part of the loose overall association. –Editor's choicemore

Mara Salvatrucha (commonly abbreviated as MS, Mara, and MS-13) is a transnational criminal gang that originated in Los Angeles and has spread to other parts of the United States, Canada, Mexico, and Central America. The majority of the gang is ethnically composed of Central Americans and active in urban and suburban areas. In the U.S., the MS-13 has an especially heavy presence in Los Angeles County and the San Francisco Bay Area in Northern California; the Washington, D.C. metropolitan areas of Fairfax County, Virginia, Montgomery County, Maryland, and Prince George's County, Maryland; Long Island, New York; the Boston, Massachusetts area; Charlotte, North Carolina; and Houston, Texas. There is also a presence of MS-13 in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. –Editor's choicemore

Territory

Active in many parts of Eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union throughout Russia (mostly Moscow), United States (mostly Brighton Beach), Canada, Spain, Portugal, France, Hungary and more.